Now that I’m back home for the summer, I’ve been spending some time each day watching the national news as a way of catching up on what’s going on and where Americans’ heads are at. (By the way, MSNBC is my channel of choice, and I’ve become a big fan of Rachel Maddow. If you’re not a regular viewer of her show, I’d like to suggest that you take a look at it.)
What I’ve noticed while watching the TV news is a preponderance of stories about these hard economic times we’re living through and the lengths to which individuals are going to make ends meet. And then, while looking at the Huffington Post this morning, I found this article, written by Phyllis Caldwell who heads a group called the Washington Area Women’s Foundation. According to Caldwell, during recessions, women are much more likely to suffer financially than are men. To prove this point, the author provides a number of shocking statistics, including this one—of all impoverished people living in America fifty-six percent are either women or girls.
All this got me thinking about what I’d do if I were living in the States and needed to supplement my income. What I came up with is I’d try to start a little e-business and that I’d use Ebay to help me get started. I then did a quick bit of searching and discovered that there are tons of great how-to videos out there that have been put together by experienced Ebay sellers. I’ve included one of them here.
I read somewhere one time that the average person has enough stuff just laying around the house to make fifteen hundred bucks on Ebay. That’s not a fortune, but it is enough to make three car payments or to buy an airplane ticket to Acapulco for that vacation you’ve always wanted to take.
As someone who buys a lot on Ebay but has never sold anything, this blog and these videos have got me thinking. Where this thinking takes me is anybody’s guess.
